and how you codify that in law, that's a different issue. david: thank you very much. >> thanks, david. david: it's time for your morn gold report. as you can see, gold is up just .010%, 20 cents, hovering around the 1660 mark for quite some time now, for the past week, again, trying to find a level, a support level. 1,662 was thought to be a very important level. it did go below that, but yet to drop significantly after that. well, you know what it's likes to try to get a day off from a small business or the company you happen to work for. so, do a different set of rules apply if you work for uncle sam? shibani joshi and adam shapiro are here and did not take the day off from work and probably they couldn't. we'll talk about that next. ♪ the wise way to say merry christmas to you ♪ >> well, we have no deal on the fiscal cliff and the president is vacationing in hawaii. not bad. and here is his response, by the way, to abc's jake tapper from the news conference last week and asked the president about his first four years in office. here